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Inovonics Echostream
A wireless sensor monitoring infrastructure manufactured by Inovonics that
requires no radio license to install, and uses 900 MHz band frequency hopping
technology
WaveTrac Sensor
A Bluetooth Low Energy transmitter that uses regular Bluetooth advertisement
transmissions to communicate its status to the WaveTrac sensor monitoring
infrastructure
WaveTrac Gateway
A wireless sensor monitoring infrastructure that requires no radio license to
install, senses WaveTrac sensors, and uses WiFi to deliver the signals to the
head-end system
TAP
Telocator Alphanumeric Protocol, used for radio paging system control and
alert system interface communications on a serial port or via Ethernet
COMP2
Used for radio paging system control and alert system interface
communications on a serial port or via Ethernet
RTLS
Real-Time Locating System, supports tracking of mobile humans and
equipment and alert events associated with mobile humans and equipment.
The humans and equipment need to have an Inovonics sensor or a WaveTrac
sensor attached to them in order to allow tracking to occur.
Proximity-Based
Locating
Proximity-based Locating is a pseudo-RTLS that does not perform triangulation
calculations and does not require the definition or training of Points-of-
Interest. Proximity based locating works well with WaveTrac sensors because
the WaveTrac sensors output a check-in advertisement signal often enough to
allow WaveTrac Gateways to sense their proximity, and to report those
proximity events to the head-end system. Proximity-based RTLS provides the
benefits of being able to receive alert messages and to look up the last known
location of a sensor without being required to maintain Points-of-Interest
tables or to perform real-time triangulation calculations.
Point-of-Interest
A physical point inside a facility, where an RTLS system is trained to recognize
when mobile humans and equipment are nearest that point, to aid in providing
location information in alert messages. Points-of-interest are required to be
both defined and trained in order to be able to perform triangulation
calculations to determine where a sensor is located. Proximity-based Locating
eliminates points-of-interest configuration and management.
LAN
Local Area Network
WLAN
Wireless Local Area Network
Momentary vs
Latching Alerts
Momentary alerts are alerts that are reported once and are not tracked for an
alert cancellation event. Latching alerts are alerts that can be reported both on
alert initiation and then on alert cancellation. Latching alerts are tracked for
cancellation events, and logged so that alert response performance reports can
